Software engineer with an interest in developing user-facing applications. I am passionate about startups and have worked at and helped start a few.
Software Engineer II @ Current - Backend, Ads Analytics
Previous - iOS and Web (full stack), Cards From August 2013 to Present (2 years 5 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSoftware Engineering Intern @ Working on Sencha Architect (a flagship product), a highly complex piece of desktop-based Javascript application used to build HTML5 apps visually
Designed and implemented core features, one of which is improving the code editor
Worked with a team of dedicated engineers (mostly remote) to resolve bugs and issues based on community feedback
Developed a deep understanding of Javascript and ExtJS From June 2012 to May 2013 (1 year) Front-end Engineer @ Part of the 2-person front-end engineering team that helped bring the product to life. I worked on the charts visualization interface on the main page. (Javascript, Rapahel.js)
Within a week of launch, received hundreds of thousands of hits. Got featured in TechCrunch, Forbes, CNBC, and others. From July 2012 to December 2012 (6 months) Intern @ Hustled my way into the company for a short shadowing stint to learn from the founder and to check out the startup scene in Malaysia.
Participated in ideation process for a new product
Contributed to production code on a live site with 380,000+ members (Ruby on Rails, Javascript) From May 2012 to May 2012 (1 month) Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaFreelance Web Developer @ Worked with non-technical customers to turn ideas into products. Responsible for designing, launching, and maintaining their apps.
Notable projects: ventmart.com (Ruby on Rails), Doodels (a Facebook Canvas drawing app built in Flash) From January 2011 to April 2012 (1 year 4 months) Software Engineering Intern @ Recipient of an internal company award for building a test framework for the Ads Unit team from scratch in under a week’s time. (Selenium, Python)
Built a mobile web application for Playtime, the company’s core product (Javascript, Sencha Touch)
Built a real-time server monitoring tool (Apache Hbase REST API, jQuery)
Benchmarked performance of the company’s sites. Worked with web team and President of Products to come up with potential solutions to performance bottlenecks. From May 2011 to August 2011 (4 months)
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science @ University of California, Berkeley From 2009 to 2013 Jie Wong is skilled in: iOS development, Scala, Objective-C, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, Python, Front-end, Git, HTML + CSS, Java, Linux, Mandarin